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Old 07-26-2005, 02:13 PM  
rickholio
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Originally Posted by Rich
Ok, friendly bet. If in 10 years America still has troops in Iraq, I'll buy you a beer. I mean, what's 500 suicide attacks a year for 10 years strait? Nothing the US can't handle I'm sure. I guess those Iraqi's will start throwing roses at the feet of US soldiers any day now.

Thank you for instilling some of your worldly wisdom in an ignorant, uneducated, sheltered man like myself. What do I know.
500 attacks a year is lowballing. Over the last 2 months there's been at least 60 attacks A DAY. Of course, not all of them are suicide bombings, but 60 a day x 365 days =~ 22,000 attacks a year. I'd suspect more than 2.3% of those 22k will be suicide bombers.

It'd be hard to see how they could sustain that level, but then I said the same thing when they were at around 40/day last year and it's just been increasing.
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